Cal State

California State University

Motto	Vox Veritas Vita (Latin)
Motto in English	"Voice Truth Life" (Speak the truth as a way of life.)
Type	Public university system
Established	1857
Endowment	$1.408 billion (2015)
Budget	7.2 billion dollars (2011)
Chancellor	Timothy P. White
Academic staff	24,405
Administrative staff	23,012
Students	474,571 (Fall 2015)
Undergraduates	418,243 (Fall 2015)
Postgraduates	56,238 (Fall 2015)
Location	Long Beach, California, U.S.
Campus	23 campuses
Colors	Red & White
Affiliations	State of California
Website	www.calstate.edu

The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California. Composed of 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 460,200 students with 24,405 faculty and 23,012 staff, CSU is the largest four-year public university system in the United States. It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, with the other two being the University of California system and the California Community Colleges System. The CSU System is incorporated as The Trustees of the California State University. The California State University system headquarters are at 401 Golden Shore in Long Beach, California.

The California State University was created in 1960 under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, and it is a direct descendant of the system of California State Normal Schools. With nearly 100,000 graduates annually, the CSU is the country's greatest producer of bachelor's degrees. The university system collectively sustains more than 150,000 jobs within the state, and its related expenditures reach more than $17 billion annually.

In the 2011-12 academic year, CSU awarded 52 percent of newly issued California teaching credentials, 47 percent of the state's engineering degrees, 28 percent of the state's information technology bachelor's degrees, and it had more graduates in business (50 percent), agriculture (72 percent), communication studies, health (53 percent), education, and public administration (52 percent) than all other universities and colleges in California combined. Altogether, about half of the bachelor's degrees, one-third of the master's degrees, and nearly two percent of the doctoral degrees awarded annually in California are from the CSU.